Happy Thanksgiving

Taking pictures on Nikki's computer.  It's so much fun having a big cousin around.

We had a little change of plans this Thanksgiving   In October we got an email from my in-laws inviting everyone to Grace for Thanksgiving   We thought it over and decided it would be best for our family to stay in Salt Lake rather than go to Grace.  We didn't really have the money to drive to Grace and we didn't want to miss out on the Black Friday deals that began at 8:00 that night.  Black Friday is important to us because it helps us afford Christmas.  We respectfully declined the invite and planned on having Thanksgiving with just our little family.  

Alli and Gracie

Hannah and Cadence

Beautiful Sarah Kate

The week before Thanksgiving Nielsen's, Dearden's, and Kenny's parents went to Disneyland.  While there they all came down with an nasty stomach flu and were all throwing up by the end of the trip. Because of this and because they decided it would be best to be in Salt Lake to make decorations for the Festival of Tree's tree, more on that later, they decided, right before Thanksgiving to change their plans.  The day before Thanksgiving we got a call from my mother-in-law asking if we'd be interested in having Thanksgiving in Salt Lake at Mindy's clubhouse.  I'll be honest, at first I was a little weary about it.  They had all been sick and some were still throwing up, and I didn't want my family to get sick.  For the past few years we've had Thanksgiving at our house with just our family and I've grown to kind of like that.  All of that aside, I knew we'd have fun if we went to Thanksgiving with everyone else, so we agreed to be at Mindy's on Thanksgiving.  

Ben and Zack

DanDan

It was a very simple, yet yummy Thanksgiving which is just how I like it.  All the food was prepared before we got there so there was no cooking and very little clean up.  Everyone was in charge of bringing something so one person didn't have to make too much. The meal was delicious and the kids really enjoyed playing with each other.  The weather was fairly nice so the kids spent a lot of time playing on the nearby toys.  It was perfect.  The only downside to it all was that 2 days later our family and Kingston's all got the stomach flu.  Not fun, but it passed and looking back at it, I'm glad we went to Thanksgiving with everyone.  

Cutting the pies.

Waiting for pies.